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(Domino)With millennial angst and humour to spare, the duo’s quarter-life crisis album has a much broader remit than their repetitive breakout singleThe novelty song is a dying art form. Deliberately silly, often profoundly annoying earworms by unestablished artists rarely factor into today’s pop universe. Instead, they have been replaced … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian
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Royal Albert Hall, LondonFrontman Richard Butler is now 65, but his nicotine rasp remains a thing of wonder and the band’s pop smarts mean they have aged wellWhen you’ve waited nearly 30 years to make a record, what’s a two-year delay in touring it? Such is the fate of the Psychedelic … Read entire story.
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‘I envisaged living off my royalties … but 10 years ago I retrained as a fully-fledged secondary school teacher’Ian [Dench, guitarist] was the genius behind Unbelievable. I just sang and looked pretty. Derry [Brownson, sampler], Zac [Foley, bass] and I had the idea for EMF, but we didn’t have much … Read entire story.
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Scala, LondonClimate grief finds catharsis in Tamara Lindeman’s urgent songs, in which the gravity of her fear bumps up against vivacious, eclectic soundsTamara Lindeman doesn’t speak on stage often but when she does it’s like a dam breaking. “I have a lot of songs about not being heard,” she … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian
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Johnny Lynch’s new album celebrates the wild beauty of his adopted Hebridean home, 25 years after its people bought the island – and freed it from lairds, frauds and fossil fuelsTwenty-five years ago this June, 64 people living on a remote Scottish island did something extraordinary: they bought the land they … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian